Night vision?
Could a tapetum lucidum be introduced into the human eye in order to grant night vision properties, if not just enhanced vision?
I've read the multiple articles on the injection of Ce6 into the conjunctival sac to give the effect.. however, have you seen the eyes afterwards? That's something that might make people shy away from biohacking, or just scare children. So I guess my question is more along the lines of "could we grant nightvision with only cat-like reflective pupils?" Thoughts?
I've read the multiple articles on the injection of Ce6 into the conjunctival sac to give the effect.. however, have you seen the eyes afterwards? That's something that might make people shy away from biohacking, or just scare children. So I guess my question is more along the lines of "could we grant nightvision with only cat-like reflective pupils?" Thoughts?
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Take a look at this thread: http://forum.biohack.me/discussion/745/ce6/p1
http://forum.biohack.me/discussion/942/night-vision/p1
There are also variants as to what the lucidum consists of. A tapetum fibrosum is a layer of collagen fibers. They are arranged in a way that makes it reflective. I doubt that you'd be able to find a way to induce collagen production in just such a way that you could replicate this effect. If I remember right, these are found mostly in herbivore animals like sheep.
More promising is a tapetum cellulosum. An example animal would be a grey seal. In the grey seal, there are cells with an accumulation of Zinc cysteine. There are a crap load of other reflective materials in other organisms. You might find a way to induce the accumulation of a reflective material in the Endoplasmic reticulum of a layer of the retina. I'm not saying I know how, but it's a more realistic solution to propose then the others.